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Rajan Panchanathan

Vice President, Product Management

Customer Experience (CX)

Rajan has more than 20 years of leadership experience in Product Management, Marketing, Sales Enablement, Services & Engineering in the technology space. As Vice President of Customer Experience, Rajan leads Product Management, Compliance and buying programs for Cisco's $10B+ Support Services portfolio. Prior to Cisco, Rajan was at VCE as the VP of Product Management & Marketing and helped grow VCE's converged infrastructure business to $2Billion+ before VCE's acquisition by EMC/Dell Technologies. Between 2008 and 2013, Rajan was responsible for product management & marketing for Cisco's Data Center Switching Nexus portfolio and was instrumental in growing the business from inception to $1 Billion in 4 years. Rajan joined Cisco in 2008 through the company's acquisition of Nuova Systems, where he was leading the company's Product management & marketing for their networking products. Rajan also led the Services portfolio development for the startup Atrica which was acquired by Nokia Siemens Networks in 2007. Prior to this, Rajan held several product management and engineering leadership roles in Cisco between 1996 and 2006. Rajan has M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from The University of Texas at Dallas.

Articles

August 8, 2023

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

AI Collaboration Is Anything but Artificial

2 min read

Let’s continue the journey I started in my first blog about Cisco, AI, and automation. In it, I focused on our zero-touch RMA notification tool. Now we’ll explore Webex Chat Assistant, our AI-based conversational tool.

June 13, 2023

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Machines as “Thinking” Partners

2 min read

“The Machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back.” –Isaac Asimov

July 26, 2022

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Extended Support drives sustainability amid supply chain constraints

2 min read

Cisco Extended Support gives you the same great TAC and refurbed parts for RMAs – for up to two years beyond it’s Last Date of Support (LDoS).

Get the most from your networking, data center, servers, storage, and switching gear

2 min read

The key to getting the most out of your IT infrastructure is to have great support behind it. Find out why IDC chose Cisco as a leader for support services.

Cisco Support honored by J.D. Power and TSIA Certifications for providing outstanding customer service

2 min read

As an IT manager, you understand the value of quality customer service. Cisco placed as one of the industry’s top support service companies. Make sure you are leveraging our new innovations.